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CLUSTER API-BALANCE-DESKTOP · 11 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-04-15

AI API spend monitoring widgets

This cluster consists of desktop widgets that track AI API spending and account balance in real time, with alerts at budget thresholds or low balance, usage trends, and cost projections. The dated history is too thin to discern a shape—only one dated entry exists before the index start, so the cluster's early timeline is unclear. Traction is led by zcode-fox-widget with 6 stars, while tollcat and Prompture-Desk each have 1 star.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

APR 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 6OCT 2026: 3
APR 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 9 unlabelled

Operator · 8 hobby · 1 indie · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 11 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01zcode-fox-widget6★11 days—hobbyDesktop widget that shows AI service balances, usage quotas, and per-session costs, with a pet overlay.
  2. 02tollcat1★14 daysliveindieApp that aggregates monthly spending across cloud and AI services and shows the total in lock screen and home screen widgets.
  3. 03Prompture-Desk1★18 days—hobbyDesktop widget that tracks live LLM API usage, spending, rate limits, and budgets per provider and project for developers.
  4. 04Balance-Whale-Widget1★16 days—hobbyDesktop widget that monitors an AI API account balance and daily usage with low-balance alerts and usage trends.
  5. 05SubGauge0★13 days—hobbyDesktop app that displays real-time and historical API usage for multiple Sub2API accounts, including balances, requests, tokens, and trends.
  6. 06ai-usage-monitor0★9 days—Windows desktop widget that tracks real AI spending across providers, showing billed costs versus estimates locally.
  7. 07DeepSeek-Balance-Monitor0★7 days—hobbyDesktop widget that displays an AI API account balance in real time, warns with a ring indicator, and reports cost differences between refreshes.
  8. 08LoeBalance1★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyDesktop menu bar widget that displays account balance, daily spending, request counts, and usage alerts for Sub2API.
  9. 09usage-widget-for-cloudflare0★28 days—hand-codedhobbyAndroid home-screen widget that displays Cloudflare account usage charges, Workers compute, and upcoming bill.
  10. 10claude-opus-premium-tariff-calculator0★1 mo—hobbyDesktop calculator that estimates monthly AI API costs and compares pricing tiers to find the cheapest plan for heavy users.
  11. 11obol-desktop1★5 moliveDesktop widget that tracks AI API spending in real time, alerts at budget thresholds, and projects monthly costs from usage trends.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.